THURSDAY, 20 JUNE
50 YEARS OF CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER IN LATVIA
VENUE: Pauls Stradins University Hospital, Cardiac Surgery Center, Pilsoņu iela 13, Riga
Pauls Stradins Hospital, The New building, Pilsoņu iela 13, Riga
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome
Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Latvia)
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology
Peteris Stradins MD, PhD (Latvia)
Chief, Centre of Cardiac Surgery, Pauls Stradins CUH
09:10 – 09:30 Aortic valve sparing root replacement
Rimantas Benetis MD, PhD (Lithuania)
Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
09:30 – 09:45 Modern insight in Hybrid treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Mark La Meir MD, PhD (Belgium)
UZ Brussels
09:50 – 10:10 Coffee break
10:10 – 11:00 LIVE Surgery
Rimantas Benetis MD, PhD
Mark La Meir MD, PhD
Jean-Francois I. Obadia MD, PhD
and the local team
11:00 – 11:15 Revascularization strategies for total arterial CABG
David Taggart, MD, PhD (UK)
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
11:15 – 11:30 Does the “no touch” vein graft solve the question of durability?
Domingos Ramos De Souza MD, PhD (Sweden)
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and
Health, Örebro University
11:30 – 11:45 Decision making in TAVI era – one special case
Utz Kappert MD, PhD (Germany)
Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Dresden
11:45 – 12:00 Evolution in mini AVR (Live in a box)
Manuel Wilbring MD, PhD (Germany)
Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Dresden
12:00 – 12:20 LIVE Surgery
Final remarks from the operating theatres
12:20 – 12:35 Mini-invasive aortic root replacement procedure (Live in a box)
Arno Ruusalepp MD, PhD (Estonia)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tartu University Clinic
12:35 – 12:50 “Frozen elephant trunk” using the Thoraflex system (Live in a box)
Günter Taal MD (Estonia)
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
The North Estonia Medical Centre
13:00 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 14:00 Structural heart disease in 2019 and beyond
Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Latvia)
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology
14:00 – 14:30 LIVE Surgery 2nd round
14:30 – 14:50 Current mitral valve surgery in the light of results of MITR-FR
and COAPT
Jean-Francois I. Obadia MD, PhD (France)
Hopital Cardiothoracique Louis Pradel, Lyon
14:50 – 15:05 Transcatheter tricuspid valve annuloplasty with the MIA device
Audrius Aidietis, MD, PhD (Lithuania)
Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos
15:05 – 15:25 Evaluation and principles of tricuspid valve surgery
Rune Haaverstad, MD, PhD (Norway)
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Bergen University Hospital
15:25 – 15:45 LIVE Surgery
Final remarks from the operating theatre
15:45 – 16:00 Closing remarks
FRIDAY, 21 JUNE
VENUE: Pauls Stradins Hospital, The New building, Pilsoņu iela 13, Riga
09:30 – 09:40 Welcome
Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Latvia)
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology
Ilze Kreicberga,
Chairperson of the Board,
Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital
09:40 – 10:20 Ten Zen Bulls: Evolution of heart valve disease treatment
Peteris Stradins MD, PhD (Latvia)
Chief, Centre of Cardiac Surgery, Pauls Stradins CUH
10:20 – 13:00 Registration
10:30 – 16:00 Workshop with Interventional and Cardiac Surgery Faculty
Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital Intervention Cardiology
Laboratory and Cardiac Surgery Theatres
Rimantas Benetis, MD, PhD, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health
Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
David Iosseliani, MD, FESC, Editor in Chief, International Journal of
Interventional Cardioangiology, Russia
Hubertus Degen, Germany
Sunao Nakamura, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, New Tokyo Hospital, Japan
David Taggart, MD, PhD, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Live Interventional And Cardiac Surgery Cases (6 – 8 cases)
• Open cardiac surgeries with guest operators
• Complex lesions (left main, total occlusions, bifurcations, etc.)
• Plaque modification and DES types
• Scoring devices (cutting balloon, angiosculpt, etc.)
• Protection devices
• Closure devices for congenital heart diseases
• QCA, IVUS, Virtual histology, OCT
• Structural heart disease
Moderators: A.Aidietis, R. Benetis, A. Dombrovskis, H. Degen, D.R. De Souza, A. Erglis,
D. Iosseliani, R. Haaverstad, S. Jegere, A. Kalnins, U. Kappert, I. Kumsars, M. Kalejs,
E. Strike, G. Latkovskis, A. Libins, A. Lismanis, M. La Meir, S. Nakamura, I. Narbute,
V. Osipovs, I. Putnins, A. Rudzitis, A. Ruusalepp, D. Sondore, P. Stradins, U. Strazdins,
K. Strenge, E. Strike, D. Taggart, G. Taal, K. Trusinskis. M. Wilbring.
13:00 – 13:30 Lunch
18:00 – 20:00 All Star Game 2019 – basketball tournament
Address: Viestura iela 6, Bulduri, Jūrmala
20:30 Dinner in Caviar Club (View) Restaurant
Address: Baltic Beach Hotel, Jūras iela 23/25, Majori, Jūrmala